14 DAY TRIAL // The plot in the Bryan Singer lewd assault case is thickening every day. Initially billed as a simple publicity stunt, it's now revealed that Michael Egan III has a long list which contains some resounding Hollywood names and he claims he was abused by all of them as a teen.
The NY Daily News reports that the Nevada actor who made headlines last week when he filed a lawsuit against X-Men director Bryan Singer for raping him in his teenage years, is adding more names to his list.
Egan, 31 at the moment, claims he was only 15 when he was abused by Singer at a private party at a mansion in California. Today, he's adding the names of Garth Ancier, the former head of NBC Entertainment, former Disney exec David Neuman and Broadway producer Gary Goddard.
The accusations that Egan makes together with his lawyer, Jeff Herman, the man who previously represented the victims in the molestation lawsuits against Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash, claim that all the men were part on a “sordid ring” that “groomed” underage boys to be inappropriately assaulted in the late ‘90s.
They apparently all attended “notorious parties” in LA and Hawaii where underage boys would be brought in, given drugs, alcohol and gifts in return for favors of an indecent nature. The victim claims that sometimes they would use violence.
In his lawsuit, Egan accuses all the men of intentional infliction of emotion distress, battery, assault and invasion of privacy.
One of the men being accused, Neuman, blasted the allegations as completely false, “I just want everyone to know right now that the disgusting allegations made against me are COMPLETELY FALSE,” he said on Twitter.
The other men, Goddard and Ancier have yet to respond to the claims. In his lawsuit, the victim accuses Ancier of giving him drug-laced wine before sodomizing him. The same accusation is made against Goddard, a producer on Broadway.
Egan said during a press conference on Monday that “I wouldn't wish it on any of my worst enemies, to go through what I went through as a child.” He scoffed at claims that he was just looking for a payday and claimed that he was merely trying to break down this ring of Hollywood pedophiles.
“It's not about money, it's about disarming these pedophiles who use their wealth and power to escape justice,” Bonnie Mound, Egan's mother said during the press conference through bitter tears.